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The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/
19•speckx•6d ago

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coolness•10m ago
Great post and amazing progress in this field! However, I have to wonder if some of these letters were part of the training data for Gemini, since they are well-known and someone has probably already done the painstaking work of transcribing them...
suddenlybananas•4m ago
Shhhhh no one cares about data contamination anymore.

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives

https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/
312•saubeidl•1h ago•183 comments

Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
1795•ryanvogel•15h ago•850 comments

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/
136•Brajeshwar•1h ago•60 comments

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
511•nabla9•15h ago•595 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13
76•areoform•4h ago•14 comments

AI agents break rules under everyday pressure

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety
124•pseudolus•5d ago•39 comments

Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/super-fast-aggregations-in-postgresql-19/
64•jnord•1w ago•4 comments

The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-handwriting-recognition/
20•speckx•6d ago•2 comments

Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025

https://quad9.net/news/blog/doh-http-1-1-retirement/
51•pickledoyster•3h ago•12 comments

Paged Out

https://pagedout.institute
401•varjag•13h ago•49 comments

What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01800-9
15•Hooke•1w ago•3 comments

Understanding ECDSA

https://avidthinker.github.io/2025/11/28/understanding-ecdsa/
56•avidthinker•5h ago•8 comments

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
647•goplayoutside•18h ago•703 comments

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

https://snoutcover.com/billie-story
507•ragswag•3d ago•62 comments

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/DMARCSendingReportsProblems
40•zdw•4h ago•7 comments

Learning music with Strudel

https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92
477•terryds•1w ago•118 comments

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic

https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-cgo/
71•wrayjustin•1w ago•12 comments

Amazon launches Trainium3

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazon-releases-an-impressive-new-ai-chip-and-teases-a-nvidia-f...
173•thnaks•14h ago•65 comments

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-videos-and-pinpoint-nearly-every-detail/
185•thm•3d ago•58 comments

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-incre...
221•zdw•5h ago•102 comments

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
284•messe•18h ago•207 comments

Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer

https://loadzx.com/en/
47•elvis70•6d ago•11 comments

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

https://scienceclock.com/microbe-that-could-turn-martian-dust-into-oxygen/
14•ashishgupta2209•2h ago•5 comments

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p?interactionDrawer=quotes
176•TimDotC•7h ago•147 comments

All about automotive lidar

https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/
152•dllu•1d ago•63 comments

All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation

https://asawicki.info/news_1794_all_sources_of_directx_12_documentation
21•ibobev•1w ago•8 comments

School cell phone bans and student achievement

https://www.nber.org/digest/202512/school-cell-phone-bans-and-student-achievement
150•harias•15h ago•146 comments

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

https://lite.localcafe.org/
138•fullstacking•13h ago•78 comments

Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delty/jobs/aPWMaiq-full-stack-software-engineer
1•lalitkundu•12h ago

Codeberg Is Down

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
13•x3ro•59m ago•4 comments